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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Thanks Harry, but Dr Nefario has confused a couple of issues because as it appears that both the UK and the US share the same 70 years + death ruling then as suggested by Dr Nefario a book can't be out of copyright and then back in copyright.
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The US does indeed have a life+70 copyright law, but it only came into force in, I believe, the 1970s, and is not retrospective. For works published before the 1970s, the US had a system of copyright registration and renewal, which is why many works are in the public domain in the US, but not elsewhere.
The UK has a simple life+70 copyright law with (almost) no exceptions. All you need to know is when the author died.